In Re Lewis' Will
New Mexico Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
The only question is whether the will of a man is revoked by his subsequent marriage from which there was no issue.
There is no dispute about the facts, which are substantially as follows: Robert S. Lewis died the 16th day of June, 1935, leaving a will dated August 10, 1934, under the terms of which his only child, Robert P. Lewis, 2d, was bequeathed $10 and the appellant (his sister) the residue of his estate. On the 4th day of June, 1935, deceased married Irene Barger Lewis, who as his wife survived him. The mother of Robert P. Lewis, 2d, had been divorced by deceased prior to the making of…
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